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or a way of life?

where are you?

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1. Eyes wide open2. Willing to risk failure3. The Hard Part

Anyone can take the helm when the sea is calm.

Economic uncertainties +

constrained resources +

New era

extraction

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price of gas

1 LB of foodtravels

2,000 miles

Past the Industrial Age...

top-down decisionsproduce goods

solving problemscheap energy

gotta keep control

Past the Industrial Age...

Thru the Information Age...

manufacture informationchop down treescreation = connectionstill about control

Thru the Information Age...

the world is suddenly...

small

endangered

in flux

familiar

accessible

interconnected

The Interconnected Age

systemic thinkingdecisions made by groups

 creating solutions waste reduction/elimination

youʼve lost control

The Interconnected Age

(sustainability)

(broadband connections)

(faster decisions)

(self-organized swarms)

Economic uncertainties +

constrained resources +

New era +

SPEED

"When the rate of external change

- Jack Welchformer Chairman & CEO of GE

exceeds the rate of internal change,the end of your business is in sight."

We will be wrong faster.

Organizational strategy built around old assumptions.

Need new mental models.

Take a moment to consider this...

Founders as the ultimate entrepreneurs

Your organization came into being because enough people cared.

If your organization didnʼt exist already, would anyone

care enough to create it?

What would it look like?

Need a new model of community.

Itʼs time to reintroduce yourselfstay relevant

small thinking canʼt handle

Self-organized swarmsSustainability issues

Continual struggle for relevancySpeed of change

Being wrong

small thinking canʼt handle

Your Top 3 Challenges

1. Thinking big enough

2. Converting to action

3. Momentum

Present Path

Past Present Future

“All organizations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get” Arthur W. Jones

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Vision

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The Vision GapTM

the space between your aspiration

and your present path

Vision GapTM

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Vision GapTM Whatʼs yours?

Lead

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Entrepreneurial thinkingcloses the Vision GapTM

Take a moment to consider this...

Three reasons goal setting fails

Teachers should be the students Wrong processes Desireʼs not there

Fuzzy picture

VisionInspiringIndividual interpretation“Dreams”“Key Result Areas”

Number and dateNo misunderstanding

Will or wonʼtDid it or didnʼt

Goals

BIG goalsequal to your

vision

reasons this won’t work10

Identify our hurdles

Concerns

Solutions

turn

into

focused effort

prioritize

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momentumattractionconfidence

After strategy…AccountabilityTalentTools

“As I grow older, I pay attention less to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

- Andrew CarnegieIndustrialist, Businessman & Philanthropist

THINKThe Interconnected Age

THINK

The Vision GapTM

THINK

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